Log to database instead of log files

Question

I\'m interested in sending all Rails application logging to a database (MySQL or MongoDB) either in addition to or instead of to a log file. There are a few reasons, most of

Answer 1

as no answer was accepted until now, i will give my contribution

i did develop a plugin to rsylog to save the logs not in files but at mongodb

the whole source code, from rsyslog + plugin is here https://github.com/vpereira/rsyslogd-mongo

to compile it, you should just run ./configure --help and see the available options.